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Inferring Bounded Evolution in Phenotypic Characters from Phylogenetic Comparative Data.
Systematic biology - 1 Jul 2016
Boucher Florian C, Démery Vincent
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Our understanding of phenotypic evolution over macroevolutionary timescales largely relies on the use of stochastic models for the evolution of continuous traits over phylogenies. The two most widely used models, Brownian motion and the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) process, differ in that the latter includes constraints on the variance that a trait can attain in a clade. The OU model explicitly models adaptive...
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